Critique of Pure Reason: Unified Edition (with all variants from the 1781 and 1787 editions) / Edition 1

by Immanuel Kant, Werner S. Pluhar, James W. Ellington, Patricia Kitcher

Overview

Like Werner Pluhar's distinguished translation of Critique of Judgment (Hackett Publishing Co., 1987), this new rendering of Critique of Pure Reason reflects the elegant achievement of a master translator. This richly annotated volume offers translations of the complete texts of both the First (A) and Second (B) editions, as well as Kant's own notes. Extensive editorial notes by Werner Pluhar and James Ellington supply explanatory and terminological comments, translations of Latin and other foreign expressions, variant readings, cross-references to other passages in the text and in other writings of Kant, and references to secondary works. An extensive bibliography, glossary, and detailed index are included.

Patricia Kitcher's illuminating Introduction provides a roadmap to Kant's abstract and complex argumentation by firmly locating his view in the context of eighteenth-century--and current--attempts to understand the nature of the thinking mind and its ability to comprehend the physical universe.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780872202573
Publisher:	Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/01/1996
Series:	Hackett Classics
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	1096
Sales rank:	583,199
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Werner S. Pluhar is Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, Fayette.

Editorial Reviews

The text rendered by Pluhar is the work of an expert translator. . . the virtues of his text are manifold; his translation exhibits an incontrovertible mastery of both English and German. Equally important is the fact that Pluhar has given the original a very close read during the act of translating. . . . Pluhar consistently resists the tendency to translate woodenly word-for-word. . . . In point of fact, accuracy of translation stands in no direct relation to literalness; it is much more a product of meticulous textual reading and skilful writing, and in this respect Pluhar has no modern equals in English Kant translation.

—James Jakob Fehr, Kant-Studien

From the Publisher

Eric Watkins has done a fine job of abridging the Critique to a manageable size while preserving those sections most often assigned in a survey course, including enough of the Analytic to provide a continuous argument. Students will get a good sense of the whole from the parts he includes. I recommend it enthusiastically.

Kenneth R. Winkle